Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.